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Seamless translation is... Pretty incredible. I speak English and Spanish, so I recorded some English sentences and listened to the Spanish output it generated
by kylecazar 2y ago
Seamless translation is... Pretty incredible.
I speak English and Spanish, so I recorded some English sentences and listened to the Spanish output it generated. It came damn close to my own Spanish (although I have more Castilianisms in mine, which of course I wouldn't expect it to know)
- heyjamesknight 2y agoA real test here would be to give it to my friend from Mendoza, Argentina. I'm bilingual and still can't understand him. I'm not even sure half the things he says are actual words.
- xandrius 2y agoUnfortunate that the examples they provide were absolutely terrible and robotic. It put me off from actually trying it, I might reconsider.
- lttlrck 2y agoDid it _sound_ like you though? It doesn't sound remotely like me.
- kylecazar 2y agoIt didn't really the first time. I recorded a second one and annunciated really strong/well (and said more) -- that yielded the positive results.
- mattlondon 2y agoI tried it and it sounded nothing like me at all - just some random "generic" male voice that translate what I said into german. My wife put it as "that's shit - sounds nothing like you". Nuff said.
- ludwik 2y agoSome for me. I'm a man with a relatively deep voice. The translation was read out by some generic female AI voice.
- gardenhedge 2y agoI think you clicked the wrong recording. The generic female AI voice is the translation of what you said.
- svilen_dobrev 2y agowhich is good. do you really want a deep-fake? that noone can distinguish?
- 0xFEE1DEAD 2y agoSame for me. I also tried speaking German and translating it to English and when I said "Hallo ich wollte das nur mal ausprobieren" (Hello I just wanted to try this out) it translated it to "Hi, how are you? Do you know anyone who quit smoking?". I feel gaslit.
- kridsdale3 2y agoI don't recommend using gas lighting near your lit cigarette.
- suddenlybananas 2y agoI translated from French to English and vice versa and the voice sounded nothing like me in either case. The English to French translation also made me sound about 90 years old.
- anal_reactor 2y agoWhether "we're there yet" on translation technology is still debated, but at some point we'll consider it "good enough" for most practical use cases, truly removing the linguistic barrier. This is actually both terrifying and exciting, because then it'll definitely start influencing spoken language to at least some degree.
- suddenlybananas 2y agoIt depends how much tolerance you have for mistakes. For a waiter or asking directions or things like that, 100% this works great. For a diplomatic discussion where nuance is very important however... It also doesn't work great for translating works of art where the translation itself is open-ended and can be done in a bunch of different ways and requires a lot of editorial/artistic decisions from the translator.